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Terence Winter: From Law School to Pine Barrens to 'Vinyl'

Terence Winter, the co-creator and showrunner of the new HBO series Vinyl, tells us how his roots in Brooklyn and stint practicing law both helped him -- in a roundabout way -- land big writing jobs in Hollywood.

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Writer and producer Terence Winter is a busy guy. At one point in 2007, he was working on his HBO series, Boardwalk Empire, as well as the script for The Wolf of Wall Street. Now, he and Martin Scorsese have teamed up again, this time joined by Mick Jagger, for the new HBO series Vinyl. Winter tells us about his path from practicing corporate law to writing for The Sopranos.

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Terence Winter is the co-creator and executive producer of Vinyl. He's an old hand at HBO: he wrote iconic episodes of The Sopranos, and worked with Martin Scorsese creating the series Boardwalk Empire and writing the movie The Wolf of Wall Street. He's teamed up with Scorsese once again, along with Mick Jagger for Vinyl.

Winter is a law school graduate who passed the bar in New York and Connecticut. He practiced corporate law until he realized, in his late twenties, that this definitely wasn't what he wanted to do with his life.

He tells us how he quit his job, moved to LA and started writing sitcoms. His path wasn't without some bumps along the way, but shares how one particular rejection led, in a roundabout way, to him meeting David Chase, the creator of The Sopranos. After that, everything changed.